Can we talk about Info Select?

Posted by razorboy
Aug 31, 2012 at 03:46 PM

gunars wrote:

>>It is hard to believe that the same person/people
>wrote both programmes.
> >The feature list for IS 10 also had this gem:
> >By request of
>our customers to simplify Info Select, we have removed the following rarely used
>features: font search, closed file search, image scanning, inserting text in
>images, web based data, spreadsheet, generating DB from deliveries, ODBC, import /
>export (doc, xls, Outlook, Auto mode, HTML), thesaurus, palm sync, presentation
>mode, keyword auto-color, programmer edit mode, space mapper, compressed files,
>file archiving, replace by style color font, dialer, NNTP support, secondary
>backups, external files, intra-topic shortcuts, alt+n key shortcuts.

There must be something weird going on over at Micro Logic. The forum is dead, the owner doesn’t reply to forum registration, tech support knows nothing about any of it, and Version 10 is more or less dysfunctional, and inferior to the previous version, IS 9, also called IS 2007… I wonder if we will ever see another new version.

In fairness, it must be said that one of the problems IS has/had, is that its user base is more or less split between those who want it to do the basics - organize a lot of fairly simple data and instantly sort and recall it - and those who want IS to be The Muther Of All Software, ie., save 88 zillion gronkobytes of infomration, convert everything to everything else, do all the internet and email stuff….... and they want it done on their telephone. Lots of people are using Evernote + other software to get that done.

Fortunately, I am in the “basics” group. For that job, IS is very very effective.